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isPermaLink="false">http://www.teachpianotoday.com/?p=3705</guid> <description><![CDATA[Imagine the excitement on the faces of your youngest piano students when you open up your piano, give them a mallet (xylophone&#8230;not kitchen!) and tell them to smack those strings. While a mallet in the hand of the wrong student &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.teachpianotoday.com/?p=3696</guid> <description><![CDATA[That post title even made me squirm… and I’m the one who wrote it. I pay close attention to our website statistics and analytics, so when I saw that someone landed on our site yesterday after googling “how to steal &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.teachpianotoday.com/?p=3668</guid> <description><![CDATA[Question:  How can I build up my piano studio (by adding students) in the economic down turn? In an economic downturn, a family’s budget gets tight. And when a family’s budget gets tight, only the absolute necessities make the cut. &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.teachpianotoday.com/?p=3656</guid> <description><![CDATA[You know… I’ve always been envious of art instructors or dance teachers, and their ability to teach multiple students (and therefore collect multiple cheques) at once. I mean really, as piano teachers what are we supposed to do? Personally, I &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.teachpianotoday.com/?p=3627</guid> <description><![CDATA[What does a lipogram have to do with sight reading piano music? Have you ever even heard of a Lipogram?  It’s a piece of writing that omits one letter &#8211; forcing the writer to use words beyond the ordinary.  Writers &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.teachpianotoday.com/?p=3486</guid> <description><![CDATA[We are very excited to announce the launch of our newest project, Kick It Classical Radio. Kick It Classical Radio grew out of a very real need to expose our piano students to classical music in a friendly and fun &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.teachpianotoday.com/?p=3357</guid> <description><![CDATA[Question: I&#8217;ve noticed some teachers have piano practice incentive themes.  Do you encourage practice this way, or do you think steady improvement is enough to motivate students to continue practicing?  I&#8217;d like to hear what you think of incentive programs. &#160; &#8230; <a
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